(NASDAQ: INTC) stock is climbing in Thursday's trading. The company's share price was up 4% as of 11:30 a.m. ET, according to data from S&P Global Market Intelligence.

Intel stock is gaining ground thanks to the very strong results that Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) published in its second-quarter results yesterday. But while Nvidia's Q2 report was enough to power gains for Intel and other players in the artificial intelligence (AI) space, they weren't enough to push its own stock higher: The company's share price was down 3.5% as of this writing.

Investors were looking to Nvidia's Q2 report to provide indications about trends in the AI market, and the company delivered a wide range of positive indicators. The company reported non-GAAP (generally accepted accounting principles) adjusted earnings per share of $0.68 on revenue of $30 billion, which came in significantly better than the average analyst estimate's call for per-share earnings of $0.64 on sales of $28.7 billion.

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